Flowers of the Earth

The Guarani-Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul see no boundary between body and land: earth is skin, trees are umbilical cords, mountains are bones of a living mother. For more than a century, that mother has been fenced, burned, mined, and poisoned, and her children confined to fragments of the territory that once held them all. The film listens to elders who remember the forest before farmers arrived, before native vegetation was clear-cut and the living land was carved into square plots of a single endless crop.